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Creature Castle box art
1975 Ranked #18,838

Creature Castle

This children’s card-matching race has players move through a castle by playing cards that match board spaces. Reaching the exit first wins, so every hand becomes a simple route-planning puzzle.

Racing Move Through Deck

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.49

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.8/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

A cute, mostly for kids game of trying to get through a castle and get to the exit. Movement is done by matching cards in your hand to spaces on the board.

Core mechanisms

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Move Through Deck

Progress through an ordered deck that represents position, time, or distance.
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A cute, mostly for kids game of trying to get through a castle and get to the exit. Movement is done by matching cards in your hand to spaces on the board. First one out, wins! This game was basically a remake of the game Dark Shadows, also by Whitman. The "Barnabas" and "Vampire" cards were replaced with "Creature" and "Monster" cards in this version. The layout of the paper gameboard was also slightly changed/improved?? Re-implements: Dark Shadows

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Category

1
Racing

Mechanism

1
Move Through Deck

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2
Play time
30 min
Age
8+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
(Uncredited)

Artists

1
Bruce Bond

Publishers

2
Western Publishing Company Whitman

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